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- From: root@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (Superuser)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: file too large for me
- Message-ID: <921122220@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 02:57:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov21.151544.28081@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
- > That's me as in micro-emacs, not as in myself :)
- >
- > So, how do I edit a file that's too big for micro-emacs? I tried using
- > vi once and it was unceremoniously truncated. I really do want to edit
- > the documentation for xc so that it will print properly under 3.2.1's
- > somewhat quirky nroff.
- >
- > -John D. Boggs uunet!erato!jdb
- >
- >
- me holds the entire file in memory while you edit. 3.x coh only allows
- me 64 kb of data space, and the program has to hold its operating
- data in that same space.
-
- So... use the split command to divide the file into chunks, then edit
- one chunk at a time. You can cut and paste between the chunks by
- 'killing' a section of test and then using the ^x^r command to load
- the chunk into which you wish to paste.
-
- But the basic idea is that you must divide the file before you edit.
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